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Gregory S. Brown received his Ph.D. in European History
from Columbia University in 1997, with a specialization
in French Cultural and Intellectual History. He has taught
at Columbia, Hunter College, and George Mason University,
and he is currently Associate Professor in the Department
of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where
he teaches courses in western civilization, French history,
European cultural history and history and new media.
His research studies strategies of "self-fashioning" in Enlightenment-era
France, particularly the representations deployed by writers
for the royal theater, the Comédie Française, in their efforts
to attain the status of "homme de lettres." His work
also addresses such related issues as peformance and printing;
the rhetoric and practice of patronage; literary property;
and censorship. He has published articles and delivered papers
on these topics as well as on Beaumarchais and the Société
des auteurs dramatiques, on utopian discourse in the French
Enlightenment, and on theater criticism in the eighteenth-century
French periodical press.
He has published articles from this research in such
journals as the Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine,
French Historical Studies, French History, Eighteenth-Century
Studies and Historical Reflections, and in
the Journal of Modern History (which was awarded
the Clifford Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies).
He has also published two books on this topic: the first,
A Field
of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and
Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine
to the Revolution, has been awarded an American
Historical Association "Gutenberg-e" prize and has
been published by the Electronic Publishing Initiative
of Columbia
University Press. The second, Literary
Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1774 - 1793:
Beaumarchais, the Comédie Française and the Société des
auteurs dramatiques,
will appear in Ashgate Press's "Studies on European Culture
in Transition" series in early 2006.
Among his other projects, he is author of Cultures
in Conflict: The French Revolution (Greenwood
Publishing Group, 2003) and Associate Editor, with Jeff
Horn of Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring
the French Revolution (Penn State University Press,
2001), a multi-media, interactive cd-rom, website produced
by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason
University in conjunction with the American Social History
Project of the City University of New York.
He currently lives in the historic Southridge
neighborhood of Las Vegas with Jessica, Aaron
and Clyde.
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